Hotmail messes up my Outlook Express

[Kabelfoon]

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7. Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I 'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[Robert]

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7. Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I 'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

I'm not a computer tech by any means so I don't have an answer for you
but I don't quite understand why your using Outlook to access Hotmail?
In my view Outlook is a mess and I stay away from it although I
realize some people find it useful. I just logon to Hotmail directly
from IE7 and have no problems.

Robert

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7.
Since then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs
to be replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved' the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

It is extremely unlikely that the use of the Hotmail account altered
OE. Either it is a coincidence or else you got hit by a virus or
by malware. Use System Restore to return Windows to its state
of two days ago. If this does not fix it, re-install IE7 - this will
re-install OE as well.

 

[Bob I]

Outlook Express has it's own group,
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...150-57ad-41d0-b145-8f6c650b58ef&lang=en&cr=US

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

[Crossposted to OE General]

Damned kids! <eg>

When exactly do you get this error message? Please post the complete error
message.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

 

[Kabelfoon]

Complete error message (translated from Dutch, so literal text may differ on
US/UK system):

First: 'Outlook Express is not the standard e-mail client. Do you want to
make it your standard e-mail client?'

Second: 'Simple MAPI support cannot be activated. Mapistub.dll in the system
folder may be damaged.'

Atoznl

[Crossposted to OE General]

Damned kids! <eg>

When exactly do you get this error message? Please post the complete
error message.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one
of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7.
Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[Microsoft]

Hi Pa Bear,

Complete error message (translated from Dutch, so literal text may differ on
US/UK system):

First: 'Outlook Express is not the standard e-mail client. Do you want to
make it your standard e-mail client?'

Second: 'Simple MAPI support cannot be activated. Mapistub.dll in the system
folder may be damaged.'

Atoznl

[Crossposted to OE General]

Damned kids! <eg>

When exactly do you get this error message? Please post the complete
error message.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one
of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7.
Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Aha!

Why it happens:

Microsoft Outlook updates change the default mail handler to Microsoft
Outlook
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13

How to avoid it in the future: If you don't use MS Outlook or any of its
features (e.g. ,Calendar), remove it from your install of MS Office, or
decline to install any future Outlook updates.


How to fix it:

1. http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx; then...

2a. http://www.oehelp.com/oelnk.aspx

2b. (WinXP) [Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs >] Set Program Access and
Defaults > Email > Select OE here.

If still no joy, see:

SendTo and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Hi Pa Bear,

Complete error message (translated from Dutch, so literal text may differ
on
US/UK system):

First: 'Outlook Express is not the standard e-mail client. Do you want to
make it your standard e-mail client?'

Second: 'Simple MAPI support cannot be activated. Mapistub.dll in the
system
folder may be damaged.'

Atoznl

[Crossposted to OE General]

Damned kids! <eg>

When exactly do you get this error message? Please post the complete
error message.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one
of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7.
Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[Kabelfoon]

Hi Pa Bear,

In IE OE was already set as default.
Set Program Access and Defaults: OE was set already as default
In Registry, OE was correct, and set as default
Mailto was set to OE already and path was correct
Re-registered OE.msimn.exe
Removed Outlook from system (was present indeed)

Problem remains, unfortunately. Any further ideas?~

Best regards,
Atoznl

Aha!

Why it happens:

Microsoft Outlook updates change the default mail handler to Microsoft
Outlook
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13

How to avoid it in the future: If you don't use MS Outlook or any of its
features (e.g. ,Calendar), remove it from your install of MS Office, or
decline to install any future Outlook updates.


How to fix it:

1. http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx; then...

2a. http://www.oehelp.com/oelnk.aspx

2b. (WinXP) [Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs >] Set Program Access and
Defaults > Email > Select OE here.

If still no joy, see:

SendTo and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Hi Pa Bear,

Complete error message (translated from Dutch, so literal text may differ
on
US/UK system):

First: 'Outlook Express is not the standard e-mail client. Do you want to
make it your standard e-mail client?'

Second: 'Simple MAPI support cannot be activated. Mapistub.dll in the
system
folder may be damaged.'

Atoznl

[Crossposted to OE General]

Damned kids! <eg>

When exactly do you get this error message? Please post the complete
error message.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002


Kabelfoon wrote:
In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday one
of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7.
Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to
be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

:
In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday
one of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using
IE7. Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs
to be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

I'm not a computer tech by any means so I don't have an answer for you
but I don't quite understand why your using Outlook to access Hotmail?
In my view Outlook is a mess and I stay away from it although I
realize some people find it useful. I just logon to Hotmail directly
from IE7 and have no problems.

Robert


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From poster using Google Groups to post to newsgroups. Uh huh. Guess
this Google Grouper doesn't want to have availability of their e-mails
when access to the mail host is unusable (i.e., unreachable or
unresponsive host), or to organize their e-mails using rules that far
exceed the crap rule set available in a webmail-for-dummies interface,
or to employ anti-spam filtering far superior than what is available
by the e-mail provider.

For some users, the webmail-for-dummies interface is all they will
ever need. Actually it is about all they can handle. For other
users, the webmail interface is like trying to use an Etch-A-Sketch to
replace canvass and paint.

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However,
yesterday one of my children used my computer to access her Hotmail
account, using IE7. Since then I get an error message that
MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to be replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved' the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

And how did you "replace" the mapistub.dll file? Did you run "sfc
/scannow"?

 

[Kabelfoon]

Hi Vanguard,
Simply copied a downloaded version into system32 folder.
Why should I run 'sfc /scannow' and what does that do?
Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

I have already replied to your identical reply which you correctly
crossposted to WinXP General and OE General newsgroups (but using a
different Live.com Profile). Please stick to that part of this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...94d597a6ef4/80393dd59ec013ae#80393dd59ec013ae
--
~PA Bear

Hi Pa Bear,

In IE OE was already set as default.
Set Program Access and Defaults: OE was set already as default
In Registry, OE was correct, and set as default
Mailto was set to OE already and path was correct
Re-registered OE.msimn.exe
Removed Outlook from system (was present indeed)

Problem remains, unfortunately. Any further ideas?~

Best regards,
Atoznl

Aha!

Why it happens:

Microsoft Outlook updates change the default mail handler to Microsoft
Outlook
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13

How to avoid it in the future: If you don't use MS Outlook or any of its
features (e.g. ,Calendar), remove it from your install of MS Office, or
decline to install any future Outlook updates.


How to fix it:

1. http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx; then...

2a. http://www.oehelp.com/oelnk.aspx

2b. (WinXP) [Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs >] Set Program Access
and
Defaults > Email > Select OE here.

If still no joy, see:

SendTo and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Hi Pa Bear,

Complete error message (translated from Dutch, so literal text may
differ
on
US/UK system):

First: 'Outlook Express is not the standard e-mail client. Do you want
to
make it your standard e-mail client?'

Second: 'Simple MAPI support cannot be activated. Mapistub.dll in the
system
folder may be damaged.'

Atoznl


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
[Crossposted to OE General]

Damned kids! <eg>

When exactly do you get this error message? Please post the complete
error message.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002


Kabelfoon wrote:
In WindowsXP I use Outlook Express 6.0 with IE7.0. I access my own
hotmail
account via Outlook Express and that works fine. However, yesterday
one
of
my children used my computer to access her Hotmail account, using IE7.
Since
then I get an error message that MAPISTUB.DLL is damaged and needs to
be
replaced.

This happened before (with same reason) just before I changed the
motherboard in my computer. As I had to re-install all software, I
'solved'
the problem.

Just replacing Mapistub.dll doesn't work unfortunately.

Who can help solve this problem?

Best regards,
Atoznl

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Simply copied a downloaded version into system32 folder.
Why should I run 'sfc /scannow' and what does that do?

Because what you downloaded might not be the correct version for the
OS that you are using. SFC will check if the version of the file
belongs to that OS and has not been altered; if not, you will need the
install media for the OS to retrieve the original file copy from there
(and then follow with a Windows Update just in case a service pack,
update, or patch replaced that file).

"downloaded" does not say from WHERE you downloaded the file (I didn't
realize that Microsoft provides individual downloads of all files for
the operating systems which would probably result in someone yanking
all of them to create a pirated copy), or that you got the version of
the file for your particular OS version.